Carnival’s Jennifer Vandekreeke has hailed herself a water taxi and headed back to shore. We’re going to assume the fare was pretty expensive.

The world’s largest cruise company is gradually getting some meat back on its bones, but it won’t quite have that pre-pandemic girth by the end of the year.

The cruise line is refusing to let travel ban extensions slow it down, announcing plans to grow its fleet by two more ships by 2023.

The cruise giant has laid bare its quarterly financials, and it appears head office will have to wait patiently for a new Nespresso machine.

Unfortunately, even the mere mention of Monopoly is banned in the Travel Weekly office after “the incident”.

Canada’s obnoxiously handsome PM, Justin Trudeau, has chucked a spanner in the works for cruise fanatics over on that side of the globe.

This story is a bit like a pair of mismatched socks, in that it contains both good news and bad news.

Spare a thought for the cruise line’s support team, who are madly racing to get in contact with all affected agents and customers.

Do you only read Travel Weekly for the steel-cutting ceremony stories? Well, you’d better fetch your reading glasses for this one.

Carnival Corporation has added another ship to the pile of vessels that it will offload in order to stay afloat beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carnival Cruise Line has further paused its US operations as it scrambles to meet the CDC’s requirements, as well as the additional environmental requirements placed on the brand’s parent company.

Just because most of the world’s cruise ships are currently out of action doesn’t mean they can’t perform a good deed every now and again.